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Monthly Archives March 2004

White Stripes wallpaper

I was playing with our scanner and made up this White Stripes
wallpaper (200 kB) for my desktop, and figured I might as well
share.

Posted 07 March 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

rusty anchors

Some of my recent del.icio.us bookmarks:
☞ Photoshop: Decorate Martha Stewart’s Cell
— at Worth1000

☞ The Fine Print
— How to get business cards into print, for webmonkeys [via Kottke]

☞ Sparklines
— Edward Tufte on the application of intense word-sized graphics

☞ Etymologically Speaking…
— curious word origins, including divergence between English/French/Spanish on "apple" and "cheese"

☞ That Was Then, This is [...]

Posted 06 March 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °

minor geekery

:) ephemere:~$ uname -a
Linux ephemere 2.4.20-2.3sparcsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 15 20:18:32 EST 2003 sparc unkn

:) ephemere:~$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu : Texas Instruments, Inc. – SuperSparc-(II)
fpu : SuperSparc on-chip FPU
promlib [...]

Posted 05 March 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (2) °

Musical toys

March is shaping up to be New Musical Toys Month here. Last weekend
(shush, technicality) I received an Overton tinwhistle from Colin
Goldie, the maker of Overtons, as a gift thanking me for the time I’ve
put into the Chiff and Fipple
Tinwhistle Forum, part of Dale Wisely’s Chiff and Fipple site. An
Overton is easily one of the nicest-playing [...]

Posted 04 March 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) °

Avatars

Candice and I decided to use this flash-based avatar
creator to make avatars of ourselves and each other:

 

Candice’s avatar of me:

My avatar of me:

My avatar of Candice:

Candice’s avatar of herself:

Candice’s reaction to my avatar of her:

I also did two animated
avatars
of Candice.

Posted 01 March 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (8) °